A GARDENER today crashed out of a radio competition on the day he was given a second chance to scoop a £15,000 BMW Mini.
Michael Coar, 25, of Whalley New Road, Wilpshire, was invited back on Brian Moore's Rock FM breakfast show today for the 'Who Wants to Win a Mini on Air?' competition after he was given an unanswerable question yesterday.
He had answered six questions correctly and faced one more to win the car.
But it all proved too much this morning when Michael gave Cambridge as the answer to 'Which university was the first university to win university challenge'?
He was given the options of Oxford, Nottingham, Leicester or Cambridge. The answer was Leicester.
Michael's second chance to win the super-mini came after the DJ asked him to name the item Trevor Bayliss invented, and gave him a list of options which didn't include the correct answer -- clockwork radio.
Mr Coar answered mobile phone after he had recalled the names of the people who invented the others.
But Brian Moore told him he was wrong and cut him off. Soon after listeners started calling in to point out the mistake to the station.
Mr Coar said: "If they had of given clockwork radio as an option we would have got it right.
"I was gutted and mortified with they said I was wrong, we couldn't believe it."
Marc Brow, a spokesperson for Rock FM, put it down to an administrative mistake but said they were frustrated because it had spoiled the culmination of a two week competition."
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